Incident Safety Officer

An incident safety officer is an individual who has met the requirements of Fire Officer Level I specified in NFPA 1021, Standard for Fire Officer Professional Qualifications and Chapter 6 of NFPA 1521, Standard for Fire Department Safety Officer and has the knowledge, skill, and abilities to manage incident scene safety by having and maintaining a knowledge of:

• Emergency operations
• Building construction
• Fire science and behavior relative to predicting hostile fire events
• The fire department’s personnel accountability system
• Incident scene rehabilitation strategies.
• Additional Incident Safety Officer duties include:
• Risk evaluation
• Resource evaluation
• Hazard identification and communication
• Action plan review
• Safety briefings
• Collapse zoning
• Accident investigation
• Post-incident analysis
• Safety committee participation